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. .. • • •1111••Nearing-summer. D The sun shines with a cloud. Nearly perfe<t7 S..P1199A2 SERVING THE NEWPORT - MESA COMMUNmES SINCE 1907 ON 1HE WEB: WWW.DAILYPILOT.COM SA1URDAY, MARCH 9, 2002 All ab·out personalities • Technique and touch green ·r thlnk he's next," said Nancy For bleachers Le Roy, who was enjoying the may draw the hard-core more at the tournament with her husband, golf enthusiast, but for Toshiba Toshiba Allen. Senior Senior The "he" that she and other many in the Toshiba Classic coverage, Classic spectators were waibng to see in Senior Classic galleries, the see Page 81. Friday action was Ctu Chl Rodriguez, the afternoon goUer from Puerto Rico, known golfers are what draws them. wore semifonnal to casual clothes, for his customary Zorro-like slash tennis shoes and baseball caps. of tus club arter a good shot. Deepa Bharath They spoke in soft murmurs "Swish, swish and tuck,• Le D AILY PILOT and let out the occasional cheer Roy, said waving her arms as if to when they saw a player make a slash out a "Z" in the air and imi NEWPORT BEACH - It's not good shot. Or they consoled them tated the way the legendary win exactly the kind of game where with a sympathetic • aw" as the some warrior would put his sword you might expect to see the ball back bounced and rolled off · back tn hIS scabbard after a vic Mexican wave, s kimpily clad into the rough. torious rampdge. dancing girls or fans with painted But then, something happened. Le Roy looked tmpabenUy at SEAN HILLER I DAILY Pl.OT faces. Mostly it had to do with the the time table chart lhdl she held Rather, the fans and goU afi name "Chi Chi" that was heard The crowd flocks together at the 18th hole as Doug Tewell finished up the cionados who filled up the dark being whispered in the gallenes. SEE TOSHIBA PAGE A14 first day of the Toshiba Senior Classic at the Newport Beach Country Club. Audit·finds little misspending of JWAfunds •Investigation into these funds be recldsstf1ed, at no extra cost to the county use of airport revenue The Board of Supervisors exonerates county initiated the audit in May 2000 to find out if funds gen and airport officials. erated by John Wayne were being improperly used at El Deirdre Newman Toro. DAILY PILOT The director of the Internal Audit Department, Peter JOHN WAYNE AIRPORT Hughes,exonerat~ - County supeCVlSors mis offioals al John Wdyne, the spent a minuscule portion of County Executive Ofhce dOd John Wayne airport revenue the El Toro Master on lillproper, non-aviation Development Program from uses at the former El Toro any fault, cla.urung that they Manne Base, according lo an "exh1b1ted awareness. mtemal audit released Fnday. knowledge and l.llSlght Ln the The report shows that Lmportance of keeping avtd \ county oUicials only misap bon and non-avtabon expen propria led $222,348 - or ctitures separated • 0.57°'0 - of total non-aero Calls for comment to ndutical d.lfPOrl revenue from Supervisors Jim Silva and July 1997 through the end of Todd Spitzer, who pressed June 2000. lrutlal estimates hard for the audit in 2000. STEVE MCCRANIC I DAILY f'tlOT suggested the misspent were not returned Costa Mesa resident Gay Sandoval was Qne of olne people running on a write-in campaign for an Orange would be below $400,000. County Judge nomlnatton. Ronald C. Kline, who ls facing felony charges of child molestation, was running The audit recommends SEE JWA PAGE A6 unopposed. The write-in candidates defeated Kline. Beating the odds Balboa Island Gay Sandoval proved the naysayers wrong by successfully mounting inan gets 15 to life "' write-in challenge against a judge accused of child molestation. •Thomas Michael Murphy's attorney says the Lolita Harper Ronald C. Kline - who is under house sentence is too harsh for the man who was DAILY PILOT arrest relating to criminal charges of child molestation and child pornography convicted. of lewd acts with children. hen she realized the grav - had been defeated by a group of ity of her uphill battle to write-in candidates. Dffp11 ~rath was sentenced Fnday mom· unseat a besieged judge, Kline received only 33% of the votes. DAILY PILOT ing after a jwy, in November, W Gay Sandoval remem while the block of write-in candidates found him guilty of four bered the faces of young molestation combined for 67%. SANTA ANA - A 54 - felony counts of a lewd act victims she called to the witness stand •1t was all worth it,• Sandoval said. year-old Balboa Island man Wlth a child younger than 14 during he r years as a deputy district she would say. "Nothing bad is going to When Sandoval learned of the incum will be locked away in state years of age and one misde attorney. happen." be nt Kline's legal troubles in December prison for 15 years to life for meanor count of pos essing She would hold their hand through Those same innocent - yet incred· she knew somebody needed to cbal· inapp ropriate!~ touching child pornography. the court room, look them in the eye and ibly terrified ...... faces popped back into lenge him but hoped it wouldn't be her. three young gitrs, a judge Each of the felony counts reassure them they would be OK. her head the moment she learned that ruled Friday. "The judge is here to protect you,• Orange County Superior Court JUdge SEE ODDS PAGE A4 Thomas Michael Murphy SEE BALBOA PAGE A6 A news story you didn't see onsider these dlverse ele tlon chose to send a representa ments of a nows story that tive to cover this landm4rk Cnever was. Tan Michael Orange County event. · Nguyen is a V1etnamese-Amerl· M a last minute fW-in, fate can student at Mater Dei High put me at Chapman Umvemty School, a Catholic: high ichool in as that represenwtive. santa Afia. Ori March t, ti was Wh.U~ the rest Of the Orange awarded firlt pl4ce in the high C~'I media WU busy trying echool essa)'. di\'ilion ol Chap to make Meuure w out to be a man University's thiril annue.l cle>1e call lnlteld oC the • Holocoust Writing Contest for dunk that tt WM, md Whil Ibey hit story of Arll1edet de SoUla p1'9MDtild to \II OWlr ad Ol9r Mendes, a PortugueM ~t •gala ..... k'4r'k'*1 twllll tllll who ilsued vllU that .hell>ed W9l'9 tbe ~ ~ fGr save the llV• of thOuMnc1I of ~• ..., .. ,, 1dlb9_, lewt during World War b. °' ... ,_ ......., You may ba-beeid aboUt Hldlblf ... rn Uulc •az II'* the betob °' a. a.Ill Mmdel 1•r•._.{, but UDtll rigbt DOW JOU WCM&ld .....,bavelmDWa..,_. ••. 11i9 ST. MARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH . tt tbataDpeopl&ueGoc:t·s R St. Mark Preebytedan Church ii cccmn1tted to •beUeVing th4t all h~ ~v:irs·seek to find wa~ to stuu. Ii ~ that every penoo is God's a"Ntioil, and, therefore, ~·.,~: tMm worship 11 beld at 9:30 a .m . Sun. • \ the gOod news with them all and lnvite them to lilt.en for God's ~ ~ntl Adults IJld teeru; meet for dey and Sunday IChool f~rescbool to middle school youth mee~ct°~lder ~dren attend Sunday school Sunday ICbool at 11 a.m. care ii available 'tor inlaJlts and l uni; p~ool et the chwch site and pro. · concurrent wtth the worddp 18Mce. The church aJso runs comm of age Gary Collins is senior pasl6r v1d8I a multk:uhural cUrriculum for cb.ildren 2 years. 9 months lC;l 5 years · ch (949) 6C4-13·U. · 1be church was e8tablllbed in 1962 and ia·at 2100 Mar Vasta Dnve, Newport Bea · ~ Doily Pilot _An iniitation IN THE SPIRIT to a spi,ritual visit 'No longer ts God a stranger, but a friend, a /al.her, one who delights to have us tai.k to him and open up the whole of our Uves to him.' - Michael Green ast weekend. my husband Jon and I drove up to Northern califomia to Lsee our dau~hter Amy. She ts a very busy junior in college and we're very busy at home, so l was thrilled that we had lime together. We've learned how special it is to visit college children in their college world, to meet their college friends, eat their college food, go to their college classes and really experience their col lege lives. Pictures of places and people are helpful. but Gndy Trone there's nothing like being there in per Christeson son to really experi ence what college THE MORAL worlds are like. We arrived Fri OF THE STORY day, and went to GREG FRY I DAii.Y I'll.OT Amy's dorm room. Jon sat at Amy's desk Pastor Dick George of Mesa Verde Church. The church was established ln 1960. and looked out her window. ~ So , this is where you sit,• Jon said as he looked out at a beautiful dock tower and lush green hills beyond. "I'd beard you had a beautiful view, but it's great to Mesa Verde United Methodist Church actually see it• Amy wanted us to spend lime with her friends too, and arranged a sand vol • CHURCH NAME: Mesa Verde United County communities. serve at the Hospitality Kitchen once a leyball game. Somehow Joo and I ended Methodist Church • CHILD CARE: Provided during both Sunday month. The congregation has just enrolled m up playing~ ! can't remember what • ADDRESS: 1701 Baker St., Cost.a Mesa services.

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